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Ariel Goldberg: How to fight for our political lives
Thursday, September 25, 2025
10am PT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET
via zoom / sliding scale registration here
How do we, as writers/artists/activists/ produce media, political education, and a culture of organizing against genocidal nation-states? This 90-minute virtual workshop takes it's title and inspiration from journalist Linda Villarosa's keynote address to the 1995 OutWrite conference: “We Have to Fight for Our Political Lives.”* Together we will free-write and discuss case studies that answer Villarosa's prompt, such as The Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, Newsline, a periodical produced by the People with AIDS Coalition of New York, and more! Bring questions/quandaries on day jobs, unions, boycotts, divestment campaigns, narrative, money, power, and risk assessment!
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Ariel Goldberg is a writer, curator, and educator devoted to trans and queer lineages and lesser-known histories of photography. Goldberg’s books include The Estrangement Principle (Nightboat Books, 2016) and The Photographer (Roof Books, 2015). Their exhibition on photography’s relationship to spaces for learning, Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s was on view at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati as part of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial, The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in NYC, and the Chicago Cultural Center from 2022-2024. Goldberg was a recipient of the 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Book Grant and a 2024 Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow at the New York Public Library, to support their book-in-progress on trans and queer image cultures of the late 20th century.
Image description: Black text on a pale yellow background. Ariel Goldberg, How to Fight for Our Political Lives. Thursday, September 25, 1pm ET. at Louis Place logo.